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Newspaper
Indianapolis Sun
Location
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1891
Page
3
A nostalgic poem by Nixon Waterman contemplates a future when sorrow fades and joys return. It envisions sunlit shadows, renewed loves, and reunions with friends, imagining a time when worldly woes vanish and youth’s innocence revives. The piece blends romantic longing with pastoral imagery and timeless longing for renewal.
An elderly misers neighbor faces his death and reveals a strange treasure in his greenhouse. He has spent twenty years cultivating violets and daisies from the ashes of his wife Mary, turning her remains into a living floral testament gathered in a glass house over her grave. The doctor letters his concern while the dying man insists on facing death with quiet faith.
In a closet bundle a spray ignites and the fire consumes faded flowers as Edwards watches. He bows to the flames, dies after warmth leaves him, and Thad buries him beside the grave of the one he loved. In spring wild flowers bloom on the lonely double grave.
A collage of quips and curios from shelves of old periodicals. Observations range from an owl’s silence on knowledge to money made of pasteboard tags and a Scottish proverb about choosing a mate by a cow. A comic note on Digby Bell’s dog Spreading fleas, stage cheers rise. Esquimaux death customs glimpse a stark culture.
The article notes kittish fur like sable used for trim on coats and reefers, champagne color blending cream and yellow tones. Veils shift from chin-length to ending just below the mouth, with new crowns studded in moonstones turquoise rubies or Persian designs. Capes remain long with varied backs and shoulder fits, feather trims and silk linings add finish.
A collage of banter from the Yankee Blade features comic street exchanges. It includes jokes about poker players with Chinese stereotypes, a countryman accusing a train boy of cheating over figs, and a pair of African American voices debating rapid transit and the electric line, all framed as humorous snippets from urban life.
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery at one dollar per bottle or six for five dollars ten. It promises a guarantee to cure or refund, warns against fraudulent imitations, and claims the medicine is the cheapest blood purifier and liver invigorator.
Reports span weather and finance from Michigan rainfall needs to sugar from crop yields in Iowa to a Missouri cloud burst. Texas gold finds raise hope in Young County while Chicago sees a murder and a bank fraud case surfaces in Philadelphia. Other notes include a political push in Kansas and a suspected embezzlement inquiry linked to Arkansas.
A young editor, smitten, flirts with a weary female editor as she recalls mottoes, declaring a steadfast stay for the newspaper. Their exchange is interrupted by heavy footsteps overhead and the editor departs in haste, leaving a tense moment in a newspaper office.
The Sun quotes Jim Rice vowing that lying will rise in politics while praising Reid's German Court and Kidney Cure as a remedy for threats and love troubles. The ad asserts bronchial relief from campaigning and notes wholesalers stock it, available from dealers.
Dr Fitch conducts daily telescopic observations with his moth telescope, offering lectures and demonstrations that are entertaining and instructive to attendees. The program runs on clear days and evenings, inviting public participation and discussion of celestial phenomena.
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